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rps13sr20
09-09-2007, 11:43 AM
Ok, so here what has happened. I started just trying to put those ml320 side markers on. Everything went fine in the beginning, the side markers and everything lite up. So the I decide to wait until later to put the side markers on because I needed something to file it down.

As I started driving I noticed my time display was flickering. Then when I turned on my lights I notice the dash wouldn't light up. I stepped outside and all the parking lights were flickering, front and rear. The side markers know didn't turn on. It had to have been that the power and ground wire touched as I was driving.

So then I take it to my shop's mechanic. We notice the the H/L Return Below relay is clicking. But when we try take it out the lights still act the same. Even after swapping out with another relay. My mechanic said somewhere that the relay is being affected by something that is causing the clicking.

After troubleshooting for a while we were able to find out that if we power the side markers the rest of the lights work. But we couldn't find out exactly were the problem came from. So I decided to leave it alone. My mechanic was able to set it up so as long as my parking lights were on my lights wouldn't flicker. But when they weren't on the H/L Return Below Relay would start clicking and the lights would start flickering again.

I decided since it worked fine now that I would leave it alone. But yesterday when I was driving I hit the headlight button and then the parking lights flickering starting again and wouldn't stop. And now the right headlight doesn't turn on. I checked the bulb and it's still good.

If some was anyone similar problems or knows the wiring from the parkings lights and apparently the right headlight please help me out.

Thanks in advance.